Warner Bros. Discovery canned Coyote vs. Acme earlier this week, but a new report suggests the filmmakers will be allowed to shop it around.
The Big Picture There was an enormous uproar last week when it was announced that Coyote vs. Acme, a live-action/animation feature from Warner Bros. was being written off for tax purposes, rather than released by the studio — either theatrically or via Max, their streaming platform. However, the film has been given a reprieve. According to a report by Matthew Belloni at Puck, Warner Bros.
"It was so fun to make this. It came out of this article that I think is decades old. Wiley Coyote is suing the Acme Corporation because of all the different contraptions that have exploded in his face, and stuff like that. And so, I get to play Wile E. Coyote's lawyer, and it's a mixture of animation, and it's like a Who Framed Roger Rabbit? style movie. And yeah, John Cena is so great in it. Lana Condor is in it.
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